[Hemoglobinpathy S--clinical manifestations in children in a Zairian family].

The clinical aspects of Hemoglobinopathy S in children of a black family from Zair living in Belgrade are discussed in the paper. The parents and two brothers are heterozygous carriers for patologyc hemoglobines; those children had, sauf permanent anaemia, the crysis of dyspnea, cyanosis, cough, evidence of subperiosteal bone formation, associated with vitamin D deficiency. The Youngest child, girl two years of age, is homozygous with complete Sickle cell disease: hand-foot syndrome, heterotopic paravertebral hematopoetic tissue, lung infarctions, cardiomegaly, severe drepanocytic anaemia; she succumbed in an a attack after many episodes of severe hypoxia.